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Once there was a blustery and egomaniacal newspaper columnist, if I might risk redundancy, who went on a columnizing rampage about the basketball coach. The mad columnist wrote that this coach was a hopeless nincompoop who simply had to be fired lest the local college team never achieve success again. The 'F' word is being thrown about with abandon WASHINGTON -- Judging from complaints by her minions, Hillary Clinton considers it unfair that Barack Obama has been wafted close to the pinnacle of politics by an updraft from the continentwide swoon of millions of Democrats and much of the media brought on by his Delphic utterances such as "We are the change." But disquisitions on fairness are unpersuasive coming from someone from Illinois or Arkansas whose marriage enabled her to treat New York as her home, and the Senate as an entry-level electoral office (only 12 of today's senators have been elected to no other office) and a steppingstone to the presidency. Inspiration and Conviction It is looking more and more that the upstart senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, will be the Democratic nominee for president. If that's the case, and Sen. John McCain gets the GOP nod, which is beyond forgone, the race of 2008 will be one of inspiration versus conviction. Young travelers enriched by cell service, proximity to bathroom When my parents visited Europe during their YIPPIE-the-kids-are-finally-all-out-of-the-house phase, they enthusiastically anticipated the centuries-old architecture. Whenever we spoke, conversation conveniently meandered toward hopes of finding documentation of generations of ancestors while visiting creepy graveyards and talking with third and fourth cousins. |
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